SCO Unix and ntpdate

[David A. Bandel]

On Wed, 10 Jul 2002 18:45:55 -0500
begin  "Brett I. Holcomb" <bholcomb at R777cableone.net> spewed forth:

>  have been asked by IT to help them with a Unix system they have.  It's
>  SCO 
> Unix (uname -a gives UNIX_SV,  4.2mp 2.1.3 i686 x86at).
> 
> They are trying to use ntpdate to synch with a Win2K server that is
> acting as a ntp server.   For testing we ran ntpdate servername and get
> the message "No servers available for synchronization".

I've gotten this on occasion from my ntp server.  Not looked into it,
however:
when I've gotten this error message, it's almost always been immediately
after I shut down then fired up ntpd.  If I wait for a while, the error
disappears.  I believe ntpd won't allow itself to be used to update from
until it has received a certain number of updates itself (must check
this).

It also happens when there's high network latency.

Ciao,

David A. Bandel
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